I'm not sure my curiosity about his firing rises to the level of speculation, but my gut tells me it would have to be pretty serious to fire the longest-serving employee at the franchise - one who had numerous high-profile responsibilities and was a company-sponsored race car/go cart driver. I personally think it could be an accumulation of lies, that made it impossible for management to know what was true/not. But it could have been theft or chronic tardiness (doubt the latter). I would like to know because it will help inform my understanding of JW's behavior and character. I can not stand liars - it's a big issue for me.
I find it hard to believe someone conducts himself with integrity in the majority of his life, but the minute his new employer and family are brutally murdered, he can't put the truth together for LE if his life depended on it. I'm still trying to figure him out. If he's not involved, it might be even scarier, because it just shows that non-violent sociopaths are roaming undetected among us. That may be true, regardless, but I like my sociopaths superficially normal and harmless.
JMO
It's not just that I agree with you.
This whole post is well-composed. It articulates what I think the nagging unease about JW is and the hostility. Blithe lying at such a time!
I think you nutshell what it takes me pages to get at--we know so little, but what we know, at an intuitive level, tells us. As you say, we know people, of basic good character, will behave more consistently. You don't find lying about such an important situation and then going about most of life being a trustworthy good guy. People who have a code of honesty don't make such a big time violation of it.
Except sociopaths, not having a code, have nothing to violate.
Your take on the job, why he might have been fired, rings true for me.
He did not lie because he was nervous. He can't be the flustered type and any kind of a race-car racer.
I can talk all I want. Face to face with one, I will once again fail to spot. If I spot, a week later, face to face, I will fall for the story
again. How could so and so have been so awful to poor X's dog? He may well be a tad sociopathic, but he really does love dogs.
Of course I am getting the story of how his room mate is abusing his dog because
I really do love dogs.
As it turns out
he threatened to have his room mate's dog put down if the roomie didn't
give him 300 dollars. True co-worker story and we all originally liked him so much. He'd been the rock, tireless, a life-saver, and wow, he made you feel good about
yourself.
What the snake say?
But you knew I was a snake when you picked me up.
JMO
